Locke’s famous Second Treatise covers how he thinks proper government should operate. I focused on this treatise because the First Treatise is all about how no king and nobody can prove he is truly the direct heir of rule from Adam, and is a lot less relevant in today’s political debate climate.
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Chapters 1 and 2: Locke’s introduction and the State of Nature
Chapters 3 and 4: The State of War and Slavery
Chapter 5: On Property
Chapter 6: Of Paternal Power
Chapter 7: Of Political or Civil Society
Chapter 8: Of the Beginning of Political Societies
Chapters 9 and 10: Of the Ends of Political Society and Government and Of the Forms of a Commonwealth
Chapter 11: The proper limits of government
Chapters 12 and 13: The executive and federative powers, their goals, and their limitations
Chapter 14: On prerogative
Chapter 15: The three types of power and how they differ
Chapter 16: Of conquest
Chapters 17 and 18: Usurpation and tyranny
Chapter 19: Of the dissolution of government
Final thoughts and conclusions: Where Locke succeeds and where he fails